The next morning, not long after Liu De got up, Wang Dao came to report that a letter was sent by a servant.
Liu De took the letter over. Most of the letters at this time were written on bamboo slips. Occasionally, someone would pass them on silk cloth, but that was the behavior of a prodigal and nouveau riche, and ordinary nobles would not do that.
This unsigned letter is the same, written on a bamboo slip, but the outside is sealed with beeswax to prevent it from being peeked at.
Liu De burned the beeswax, then opened the bamboo slip and took a look at the contents inside.
"King Youxian is dead?" Liu De showed a happy smile after reading: "That's great!"
This letter was written by Yuan An, and it contained just one sentence: In the spring, King Youxian suddenly died, and the Chanyu appointed his son as King Zuoguli, demoting him to Zhongxing and sent him to Beihai.
Although the content is brief, the information revealed is extremely rich.
Liu De knew that the wisest Chanyu in the history of the Xiongnu, Shanyu Shangyi, had died five years ago. The current Chanyu was named Junchen, and he was the eldest son of Shanyu Shanyu.
In the future, this military minister Chanyu will be awarded the honorary title of Friend of the Han for his various actions.
He determined to advance westward, devoted almost all the power of the Xiongnu Empire to the conquest of the west, and implemented a peaceful and friendly policy towards the Han Dynasty, so that the Han family's border gates did not suffer large-scale invasion for seventeen consecutive years, allowing the Han family to
The emperor can calmly reorganize the military and expand the horse farm.
Before the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms of Wu and Chu, the emperor of the Han family had less than 100,000 usable war horses in his pasture. However, by the first year of Yuanguang, the number of war horses in the emperor's pasture exceeded 600,000, and he was ready for expeditions.
The desert, the qualification to compete with the Huns cavalry.
In his previous life, Liu De could not figure out why, when Cheap Daddy came to the throne, the Huns cavalry marched straight into Dai, invaded Yanyou, and plundered tens of thousands of border people. But just over a year later,
When the Seven Kingdoms Rebellion broke out between Wu and Chu, the Huns were indifferent, and not even half of their cavalry came close to the Great Wall.
Of course Liu De would not be stupid enough to believe that it was because of his cheap father's marriage policy that he fed the Huns.
Now, with this message from Yuan Ang, all the mysteries have been solved.
There is no doubt that the Huns once again engaged in internal strife this year.
The faction of King Youxian, who advocated invasion and harassment of the Han Dynasty, suffered a devastating blow. Its leader, King Youxian, even died suddenly in Shan Yuting. Zhongxian Wang, who advocated the invasion of the Han Dynasty, was relegated to Beihai.
To understand why this happened, we must first understand the past of the Huns.
At that time, the mighty Qin Empire collapsed in the wave of peasant uprisings. The Qin Great Wall Corps, which was originally stationed in the Hetao area under the orders of Qin Shihuang to monitor and attack the Xiongnu, Donghu and other nomadic peoples, was also destroyed in the Battle of Julu.
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A huge vacuum zone appeared in the entire northern grassland.
The Huns took advantage of the situation and seized the territory, camps and pastures left by the Qin army. Then, under the leadership of Maodun Chanyu, they defeated Donghu and gained dominance over the grasslands. After passing through Maodun, two generations of Chanyus
With their efforts, the territory of the Huns Empire expanded like never before. From the Great Wall of Han Dynasty to the far western regions, the Huns established a huge empire covering tens of thousands of miles.
Obviously, with the civilization and political level of the Huns, it was impossible to effectively rule such a huge territory.
Therefore, during the reign of Lao Shanyu, the Huns determined a double-headed eagle strategy similar to that of Lao Maozi in later generations.
Set up the left and right virtuous kings, the left and right kings of Guli, the left and right dadanghu, the left and right guduhou, etc.
Those with the left will expand to the west, and those with the right will penetrate into the Han region.
The Xiongnu tradition respects the left, and the Xiongnu Zuoxian King is not only the leader responsible for the expansion of the west, but also the successor.
There is no doubt that the military minister Shanyu should have been the Zuoxian King of the Xiongnu during the reign of Laoshang Shanyu.
And Liu De remembered that the court historian of the Han Dynasty recorded an incident: next year, the Chanyu left a letter to the Han Dynasty and said: The great Chanyu of the Xiongnu was established by heaven to ask if the emperor was okay. In the previous period, the emperor made peace with the marriage, saying that the letter meant, **. Han Dynasty
The border officials invaded and insulted King Youxian, but King Youxian refused to invite him. Hearing Houyi Lu Hounan's plan, he distanced himself from the Han officials, broke the agreement between the two masters, and separated from the brothers. The emperor ordered the letter to come again and sent a written report.
, the Han envoys will not come, and the Han will be at odds with each other for this reason, and the neighboring countries will not join. Now, because of the defeat of the small official, I will punish the right king and send him to the west to seek the Yuezhi to attack him. With the blessing of heaven, the official will
With good soldiers and powerful horses, the Yuezhi were destroyed with barbarians, and they were killed and surrendered. Dingloulan, Wusun, Hujie and the thirty-six neighboring countries were all regarded as Xiongnu, and all the bow-wielding people became one family...
This is the content of the credential written by Shanyu, the elder of the Huns, when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was in his sixth year.
In order to avoid misremembering, Liu De made a special trip to Shiqu Pavilion and obtained the original certificate of credence from the historian to confirm it without a doubt.
This happened more than ten years ago.
In this ceremonial certificate, the Xiongnu Chanyu was very arrogant, but the information he inadvertently revealed was that King Youxian, who was supposed to be responsible for the offensive and defense of the Han Dynasty, was transferred to the west by the Xiongnu Chanyu because he secretly attacked the Han Dynasty.
The overwhelming success destroyed the Yueshi, pacified the Western Regions, and made all thirty-six countries in the Western Regions surrender under the saber of the Xiongnu.
Then, Liu De immediately thought of it.
King Youxian is so awesome. What does King Zuoxian, the prince, think? Liu De felt that even if he were replaced, he would definitely be very uncomfortable, and he would even draw circles and curse King Youxian secretly.
Now that the facts have been told to Liu De, King Zuo Xian and his ministers must be gnashing their teeth in hatred!
No, it had only been five years since he came to power, and he had already settled his accounts and purged the forces of King Youxian.
And this is definitely a happy event worth celebrating.
Liu De took the letter and immediately ran to the Qingliang Palace. As soon as he entered the door, Liu De jumped up and down like a child and said to the emperor: "Congratulations to the emperor, congratulations to the emperor, the Xiongnu thief chief Youxian Wang is dead!"
Emperor Liu Qigang was a little annoyed at first when he saw Liu De acting like a useless child, shouting and screaming, but after listening to Liu De's words, he immediately stood up and asked excitedly: "Really?
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"Yes, Father!" Liu De handed the letter to the emperor and said, "Father, this is the letter that Yuan An brought to his son. Father, please read it. The traitor King Youxian is indeed dead!"
The emperor Liu Qi took the letter into his hand and read it. After reading it, he could no longer suppress the joy in his heart: "Good death! Good death! It's been seventeen years. This traitor has killed more than ten of my Han family border residents in the past seventeen years."
Ten thousand, and countless people have been robbed, and I often want to eat their flesh and blood! It would be easier for this thief to die like this!"
In fact, this Righteous King of the Xiongnu is the nightmare of the Han family. In the past ten years, almost all the Xiongnu invasions and harassments of the Han Dynasty were planned and directed by this Righteous King.
In the third year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's reign, he entered Henan and Shangjun, killing and plundering thousands of people.
In the fourteenth year, he commanded 140,000 troops, entered Xiaoguan, killed the Northern Commander Sun Xun, invaded Pengyang, burned down the palace of the Emperor of Han, returned to the Central Palace, and the vanguard cavalry even appeared thirty miles north of Ganquan Palace.
It ravaged the Han region for a month, killing tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians.
Last year, they invaded Yunzhong and Shangjun, killing and plundering tens of thousands of people.
It is no exaggeration to say that this King Youxian is the enemy that the Han Dynasty wants to kill the most!
Now that he is dead, how can the emperor be unhappy?
